The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

It was also around this time that William of Tyre was promoted to archdeacon of Tyre, and was recruited by Amalric to write a history of the kingdom.

In 1168 Amalric and Manuel negotiated an alliance against Egypt, and William of Tyre was among the ambassadors sent to Constantinople to finalize the treaty.

William of Tyre explains that " after suffering intolerably from the fever for several days, he ordered physicians of the Greek, Syrian, and other nations noted for skill in diseases to be called and insisted that they give him some purgative remedy.

* William of Tyre, A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea, trans.

The chronicler William of Tyre reports on the renovation of the Church in the mid-12th century.

William of Tyre placed the blame for this disaster firmly on the baggage and the presence of non-combatants.

Some, such as John of Salisbury and William of Tyre say Eleanor's reputation was sullied by rumours of an affair with her uncle Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch.

* 1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.

According to William of Tyre, writing in the later 12th century when Godfrey had become a legendary hero, he refused to wear " a crown of gold " where Christ had worn " a crown of thorns ".

According to William of Tyre, Godfrey may have supported Daimbert's efforts, and he agreed to take possession of " one or two other cities and thus enlarge the kingdom " if Daimbert were permitted to rule Jerusalem.

As William of Tyre put it, it was hoped that Manuel would be able " to relieve from his own abundance the distress under which our realm was suffering and to change our poverty into superabundance ".

Amalric cemented his alliance with Manuel by marrying Manuel's niece Maria Komnene in 1167, and an embassy led by William of Tyre was sent to Constantinople to negotiate a military expedition, but in 1168 Amalric pillaged Bilbeis without waiting for the naval support promised by Manuel.

This is the interpretation offered by William of Tyre, who was firmly placed in the " noble " camp, and his view was taken up by subsequent historians ; in the 20th century, Marshall W. Baldwin, Steven Runciman, and Hans E. Mayer favoured this interpretation.

When Patriarch Amalric died on 6 October 1180, the two most obvious choices for his successor were William of Tyre and Heraclius of Caesarea.

According to William of Tyre, " barely three hundred knights and two thousand foot soldiers could be found " in the kingdom in 1100 during Godfrey's siege of Arsuf.

Aside from these, thereafter there is no eyewitness to events in Jerusalem until William of Tyre, archbishop of Tyre and chancellor of Jerusalem, who began writing around 1167 and died around 1184, although he includes much information about the First Crusade and the intervening years from the death of Fulcher to his own time, drawn mainly from the writings of Albert of Aix and Fulcher himself.

Contemporary chronicler William of Tyre recorded the census of 1183, which was intended to determine the number of men available to defend against an invasion, and to determine the amount of tax money that could be obtained from the inhabitants, Muslim or Christian.

Jerusalem was especially involved in the silk, cotton and spice trade ; other items that first appeared in Europe through trade with crusader Jerusalem included oranges and sugar, the latter of which chronicler William of Tyre called " very necessary for the use and health of mankind.

There was a school in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where the basic skills of reading and writing Latin were taught ; the relative wealth of the merchant class meant that their children could be educated there along with the children of nobles – it is likely that William of Tyre was a classmate of future king Baldwin III.

* William of Tyre, A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea, trans.

Honorius supported the claims of William of Malines, the new Archbishop of Tyre who claimed jurisdiction over some of the sees that had traditionally belonged to Bernard of Valence, the Patriarch of Antioch.

* William of Tyre, French continuation of.

At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.

Having been the Director of the Dutch West India Company, and the predecessor of then-Director William Kieft, Minuit knew the status of the lands on either side of the Delaware River at that time.

" Roger was however mistaken ; he knew that an unnamed archbishop of Tyre was present and assumed it must have been the William whose chronicle he possessed, although the archbishop in question was actually William's successor Joscius.

All involved knew how violently Dr. William David McCain and the white political establishment of Mississippi had recently reacted to similar efforts by Clyde Kennard to enroll at Mississippi Southern College ( now the University of Southern Mississippi ).

The daring plan involved a party of thirty hand-picked men, guided by one William Francis, a member of the garrison who knew a path to the castle, making a difficult ascent up the north face of the Castle Rock and taking the garrison by surprise.

According to author William Stevenson in A Man called Intrepid, his biography of Sir William Samuel Stephenson ( no relation ), the senior representative of British Intelligence for the western hemisphere during the Second World War, Stephenson postulated that the Germans knew about Howard's mission and ordered the aircraft shot down.

Welsh scholar William John Gruffydd noted that 15th-and 16th-century poets apparently knew an alternate tradition in which Arianrhod actually became Math's footholder.

William and his wife Sarah and the remainder of the Whiteside children knew they too needed more abundant land and followed Robert, but decided to go further south and settle in the southwestern North Carolina, in Tryon County near the First Broad River.

Many later settlers migrating to the Dan River Area knew little of William Byrd.

He was described by former West Virginia governor William A. MacCorkle in his autobiography The Recollections of Fifty Years as a man who knew the geology of the area " as a farmer knows a field.

At the Mermaid Theatre in July 1971 he played Mr Jaraby in The Old Boys ( William Trevor ) and had an unfortunate experience: " My memory went, and on the first night they made me wear a deaf aid to hear some lines from the prompter and it literally fell to pieces-there were little bits of machinery all over the floor, so I then knew I really couldn't go on, at least not learning new plays.

Latrobe also knew James Monroe, as well as New Orleans architect and pirate, Barthelemy Lafon, was Aaron Burr's preferred architect, and he trained architect William Strickland.

His place of birth is matter of dispute, but William Bulleyn, who was a native of Ely, and probably knew him when he was in the monastery there, asserts that he was born " beyonde the cold river of Twede " ( River Tweed, i. e. in Scotland ).

Once John knew he had the support of Walter and William Marshal, he sent Walter ahead to England to request all free men to pledge fealty to the new king.

Despite missing the deadline to apply for Congressional appointment to the military academy, Stilwell gained entry through the use of family connections who knew President William McKinley.

He lodged with William Pate, whom Swift knew and called a " bel esprit.

Sir Joseph Banks, when proposing the construction of the Horncastle Canal knew that the problem needed addressing, and William Jessop was commissioned to survey the Witham and the Fossdyke in 1791, with particular reference to the junction between the two.

They also set out to placate the canal interests and had the good fortune to be able to approach the Marquess directly through the good offices of their counsel, Mr. Adam, who was a relative of one of the trustees, and the support of William Huskisson who knew the Marquess personally.

* Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ) -- also not strictly a philosopher, although he knew something of William of Occam and nominalist epistemology ), from an earlier era of European thought.

The film is based on people whom screenwriter William Inge knew while growing up in Kansas in the 1920s.

The British Commander, William Howe, knew that he could not hold the city, with the artillery on the heights that would threaten the British Fleet in Boston Harbor.

Pemberton knew that the corps under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman was preparing to flank him from the north ; he had no choice but to withdraw or be outflanked.

Even William Shakespeare knew of Golding ’ s Ovid and recalls it in a number of his plays.